The Postcolonial Animal

Evan Mwangi

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from... Lees meer

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla's Voice of Agony

Abdilatif Abdalla

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki ( Voice of Agony ) is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 19... Lees meer

Animated by Uncertainty

Joshua D Rubin

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• In Animated by Uncertainty , Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographi... Lees meer

Congo Style

Ruth Sacks

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the sta... Lees meer

Continuous Pasts

Sakiru Adebayo

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• In Continuous Pasts , author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is ... Lees meer

The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Aly Dramé

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Weaving together oral and written sources, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal investigates previously overlooked dimensions of Isla... Lees meer

Congo Style

Ruth Sacks

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the sta... Lees meer

Developing States, Shaping Citizenship

Erin Hern

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• At the nexus of political science, development studies, and public policy, Developing States, Shaping Citizenship analyzes an overlooked driver of pol... Lees meer

In Search of Tunga

André Chappatte

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• This volume on Muslim life focuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town in southwest M... Lees meer

There Used to Be Order

Patience Mususa

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• In There Used to Be Order , Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large sta... Lees meer

African Performance Arts and Political Acts

Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jendele Hungbo

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• African Performance Arts and Political Acts presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural... Lees meer

The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Aly Dramé

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• Weaving together oral and written sources, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal investigates previously overlooked dimensions of Isla... Lees meer

African Performance Arts and Political Acts

Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jendele Hungbo

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• African Performance Arts and Political Acts presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural... Lees meer

Writing on the Soil

Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental ... Lees meer

Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa

Wale Adebanwi, Rogers Orock

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultura... Lees meer

The Rise of the African Novel

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in ... Lees meer

In Search of Tunga

André Chappatte

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• This volume on Muslim life focuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town in southwest M... Lees meer

Unsettled History

Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, Ciraj Rassool

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison ... Lees meer

Aso Ebi

Okechukwu Charles Nwafor

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor's volume... Lees meer

Unsettled History

Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, Ciraj Rassool

• Hardcover | Engels | African Perspectives
• Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison ... Lees meer

There Used to Be Order

Patience Mususa

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• In There Used to Be Order , Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large sta... Lees meer

Textile Ascendancies

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile production and trade. Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in No... Lees meer

Black Cultural Life in South Africa

Lily Saint

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government's policies, and they had limit... Lees meer

Power / Knowledge / Land

Laura German

• Paperback | Engels | African Perspectives
• The 2008 outcry over the "global land grab" made headlines around the world, leading to a sustained interest in the dynamics and fate of customary lan... Lees meer